All resources: Jordan

Factsheet (September 2026)

PROSPECTS Partnership Jordan: Promoting Resilience, Decent Work and Social Cohesion

This factsheet outlines how the PROSPECTS Partnership is supporting Jordan’s efforts to promote resilience, decent work and social cohesion for refugees and host communities. It focuses on strengthening protection, education, livelihoods and...

Equality@Work

Rights awareness strengthens workers’ voice, protection and trade union participation in Jordan

Under the “The Power of Unions” initiative, legal training helps women and men workers turn knowledge of their rights into stronger protection, effective trade union participation and a greater voice in social dialogue.

ILO and partners establish official recognition of prior learning system in Jordan, expanding pathways to decent work

The pilot initiative helped Jordanians and Syrian refugees turn skills and experience into recognized qualifications and pathways to future employment, laying the basis for the recognition of prior learning system institutionalization.

Global factsheet (September 2026)

ILO PROSPECTS: Results at a glance

This “Results at a Glance” factsheet presents key results from the PROSPECTS Partnership, highlighting its reach, achievements and contribution to longer-term, development-centred solutions for forcibly displaced persons and host communities. It...

Findings from Firm-Level Data

Impact evaluation of behaviourally informed awareness campaigns to expand social security coverage in Jordan

This publication presents experimental evidence generated through behavioural interventions to expand social security coverage among small firms in Jordan. Drawing on administrative data and surveys, the study evaluates the impact and...

ILO Brief

What Drives Social Security Registration? Experimental Evidence from Behavioural Interventions in Jordan’s Estidama++ Programme

This policy brief outlines the findings of experimental evidence from behavioural interventions in Jordan to increase social security registration among small firms. It summarizes the evidence on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of...

Equality@Work

Jordan moves towards a unified national mechanism to increase women’s labour force participation

The Ministry of Labour, the International Labour Organization and national partners are advancing an institutional framework to align efforts and data and track the impact of policies and programmes aimed at increasing women’s economic participation...

Case study

Systems thinking meets human thinking

Removing constraints and rewiring incentives and behaviours for better State-led social protection delivery in Jordan.

Digital transformation

Digitalized e-contracts and e-wages: A new era for labour rights in Jordan

Through digital wage payments and a unified electronic contract system for private education workers, Jordan is improving labour protections, promoting women's financial inclusion and strengthening compliance with labour standards.

Jordan's trade unions step up efforts to make workplaces more inclusive for persons with disabilities

A new ILO training-of-trainers programme empowers union leaders to promote equal rights, remove workplace barriers and advance decent work for persons with disabilities.

Manzuma Sector Selection Study

This publication presents the evidence-based process used to identify the three priority sectors for the Manzuma project, funded by the Regional Development and Protection Programme (RDPP III) in Jordan. This sector selection study presents the...

Market Systems Analysis of Priority Sectors for Inclusive Growth in Jordan: Food Industry, Food Services, and Chemicals

Developed under the ILO's Manzuma project and funded by Regional Development and Protection Programme (RDPP III), this Market Systems Analysis examines Jordan's food industries, food services and chemicals sectors to identify the structural...

Rapid Market Scoping of the Renewable and Solar Energy Sector in Jordan

Developed under the ILO’s Manzuma project in Jordan, funded by the Regional Development and Protection Programme (RDPP III), this report examines one of the key cross-cutting constraints identified across the project’s three priority sectors (food...

Training strengthens leadership capacities of women and young trade unionists

Practical leadership, advocacy and social dialogue skills help women and young leaders shape trade union decisions and build more inclusive, representative unions

Jordan annual report 2025

Narrative recap of the development cooperation implementation of the ILO programme in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

This report highlights the International Labour Organization's efforts and achievements in advancing decent work and social justice in Jordan during 2025. It showcases progress in strengthening labour market institutions, expanding social...

Blog

Old Skills for new technologies?

AI has major implications for the skills workers need to access quality jobs. This article argues that foundational skills, more so than AI expertise, will be central for workforces to navigate this transformation.

Government of Jordan and ILO sign letter of intent for immediate and long-term support to advance decent work in the garment sector

Letter sets out immediate cooperation while a broader agreement is finalized, supporting national efforts to strengthen worker protection, compliance and access to remedy in Jordan’s garment sector.

ILO and Jordanian trade unions strengthen their partnership to advance migrant workers' rights

The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the General Federation of Jordanian Trade Unions (GFJTU) convened a three-day strategic workshop in Amman to deepen their partnership in promoting migrant workers' rights and strengthening their...

Workers’ rights and gender equality drive new phase of Union Power project in Jordan

Renewed partnership between the ILO and the General Federation of Jordanian Trade Unions aims to strengthen workers’ rights, women’s and youth empowerment, and gender-responsive collective bargaining.

Report

From experience to opportunity: Unlocking skills through Recognition of Prior Learning

This report presents the outcomes of the Regional Training and Experience-Sharing Workshop on RPL, held in Nairobi, Kenya, under the framework of the PROSPECTS partnership and the ILO’s Global Skills Programme.